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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Since thier father died, the five Pepper children and their mother have been living in poverty, with only potatoes and brown bread for supper. Ben chops wood to help support the family, and Polly looks after the little ones while their mother earns what she can by sewing. The Peppers are so poor, they've never even had a Christmas. But from measles to monkeys, through bad times and good, the cozy kitchen in the little brown house rings with laughter...
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Harriet the spy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
The story about eleven-year-old Harriet, who is a spy, plans to be a writer, and keeps a secret notebook filled with thoughts and notes on her schoolmates and people she observes on her after-school "spy route". However, when her classmates find and read her notebook, their anger and retaliation and Harriet's unexpected responses explode in a hilarious and often touching way.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Description
When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Anne, lose their jobs to the gasoline, electric, and diesel motor shovels, they find a new opportunity in a very surprising place. Mike proves that, although dated, his steam shovel is still useful.
7) Lena
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lena and her younger sister Dion mourn the death of their mother as they hitchhike from Ohio to Kentucky while running away from their abusive father.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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This beautifully illustrated children’s book offers a sobering lesson about the horrors of war through the lens of a Japanese zoo during WWII.
At Tokyo’s famous Ueno Zoo, a zookeeper recounts the story of three performing elephants—John, Tonky, and Wanly—who became casualties of the Second World War. As bombs fell nightly on the city, the zoo was in danger of destruction. In the interest of...
At Tokyo’s famous Ueno Zoo, a zookeeper recounts the story of three performing elephants—John, Tonky, and Wanly—who became casualties of the Second World War. As bombs fell nightly on the city, the zoo was in danger of destruction. In the interest of...
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Anastasia Krupnik volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
For ten-year-old Anastasia, life is full of problems like teachers, boys, a grandmother who does not remember her name, and the arrival of a new baby brother.
10) The foxman
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1000L
Description
For Milo, everything's a bore. What a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he's got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing: life is far from dull....
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Henry and Mudge books volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In the winter Henry and his big dog Mudge play in the snow, share a family Christmas dinner, and gather around a crackling winter fireplace.
16) The best nest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Mr. and Mrs. Bird search for a place to build a new nest only to discover their old one is better.
17) Go, dog, go!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
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A story for beginning readers about busy dogs of all sizes and colors, engaged in all manner of silly activities.
19) Doctor De Soto
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Dodie Smith's classic tale adapted into a playful and stylish new picture book
Dalmatians Pongo and Missis live in London with their beloved owners. When Missis finds out she's going to have puppies, they're all thrilled! But, Missis doesn't just have one puppy . . . or two . . . or three . . . she has fifteen! When the puppies go missing, Pongo and Missis know that there's only one woman who can be behind the dognapping: the notorious
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